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The problems weren't impossible, the agents solved them completely within hours by reverse engineering the RNG that generated the solutions. The agents then reasoned that their solutions might be judged invalid and that they could get a better chance at a passing grade by hacking their environment to fabricate evidence that they had solved their tasks in the intended fashion.

That also seems silly, because the only reasonable regulation given what we're seeing and what frontier lab employees and execs are saying is a forcible stop.

Yeah, it's my favorite bit of C lore, a program that reads two integers, adds them, and reports the sum isn't well defined.

I'd be impressed with a touchpad and OS that can go from an actuation to a userspace process receiving a click event in 1.2ms. I'd expect something more like 10x that. My understanding is that most hardware samples between 90-130Hz, and even premium hardware only samples at 250Hz which would average 2ms before the kernel is aware.

The honest way to say this is that Fable is not useful for bio-related work. The author is working on processing RNA sequences and similar biology tasks, and Fable's classifier has a hair trigger on those tasks.

Yep. What nix adds is a declarative and reproducible way to build customized OS images to boot into.

Inflation adjusted incomes are up in the US across the board. The affordability problem is largely the price of housing because it's illegal to build.

Agree, for modern React with hooks. A React component looks like a normal function, only you can't call it. Only React can call it, in order to set up its hooks state.

You can disable it for your site using a trusted types content security policy.

Missing from the article: how to communicate progress and failure to the user?

This is much more complicated with task queues. Doable still! But often skipped, because it's tempting to imagine that the backend will just handle the failure by retrying. But there are lots of kinds of failure that can happen.

The recipient's server doesn't accept the email. The recipient's domain name expired. Actually, we don't have an email address for that recipient at all.

The user has seen "got it, will do, don't worry about it" but if that email is time sensitive, they might want to know that it hasn't been sent yet, and maybe they should place a phone call instead.

A click handler can be doing a lot of things that aren't much like a button, like letting you close a modal if you click outside of it, capturing mouse events for a game, or passively recording events for analytics. All that a click handler tells you is that there's some code that sometimes cares about some clicks somewhere inside that element.